How to detect my OS info?

[Peter Wu]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com> writes:

    >> I use Windows and FreeBSD interchangeably. I want to write a
    >> .signature script that can detect my OS respectively.
    >> 
    >> Under FreeBSD, I can fire 'uname -rs' to get the information I need
    >> and under Windows, I may need to leverage 'ver' to get the info.
    >> 
    >> Is there a one-stop solution from Python? I mean I just write one
    >> python script and it can work both on Windows and FreeBSD? Thanks.

    Mark> Have you tried:

    Mark>   import sys print sys.platform

Under FreeBSD, it reports 'freebsd4';
Under Win32, it reports 'win32'.

How can I have more detailed information, such as version?

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Peter Wu